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Philosophy

independence day

Freedom is easy to celebrate in theory and much harder to preserve in practice.

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life

my neurological double-tap

Two strokes left me stranded at the edge of the social world, trying to rebuild an adaptive, communicative interface that most others take for granted.

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Philosophy

stasis, stasi, status, state

A country does not collapse when it disagrees; it collapses when disagreement becomes the structure that holds it together.

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cybernetics

conflict, continuity, complexity

Power that cannot justify itself through competence often turns to conflict as proof of necessity.

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cybernetics

not cybernetics

Dissimulation.

Categories
cybernetics

optimise this

We remain perfectly capable of making catastrophically short-sighted decisions all by ourselves. The technology simply amplifies the incentives we have already normalised.

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cybernetics

knot clever: machine learning

The road to hell is paved with greedy algorithms.

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cybernetics

à plus tard

Enduring systems do not survive by resisting change, but by metabolising its consequences into temporary coherence.

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cybernetics

systems thinking

A school can teach systems thinking and still fail to recognise the system it has become. The paradox is not educational but civilisational: systems routinely develop the capacity to analyse (and acknowledge) everything except the conditions that organise and sustain their own perception.

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Philosophy

where meaning is not

Meaning is not hidden inside things. It emerges through the relationships, delays, absences, and consequences that allow anything to matter at all.

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Philosophy

the value of nothing

The question is whether what we currently reward actually assists the capacity of civilisation to persist, adapt, repair itself, and create meaningful futures.

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Philosophy

irony age

Every age reaches for old stories to explain new realities. The irony is that most stories survive not because (or even if) they are true, but because they are easy to transmit, to remember, to tell.